Fintech Takes
Fintech moves fast. But here at Fintech Takes, Alex Johnson and his rotating panel of guests move faster so that you can stay on top of the latest and greatest news in the industry without breaking a sweat.
Welcome to Fintech Takes—the place where fintech’s biggest nerds come to sit back, relax, and completely geek out.
Join Alex and a lineup of fintech’s brightest minds as they dissect what’s happening in fintech and banking.
Each week, Alex and his guests recap the most interesting developments in fintech and explore the industry’s most pressing questions, diving headfirst into the intricate workings of some of the industry’s most ground-breaking business models and unpacking the emerging players that promise to shape fintech’s future.
From riveting conversations with fintech’s most relevant operators to comprehensive recaps of the month's most compelling news stories and in-depth analyses of the latest regulatory developments, Fintech Takes is your one-stop-shop for navigating the fintech universe.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 160
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
S7 E11: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Frich, Constellation, daloopa and Block
You should never take fintech investment advice from podcasters— and thankfully, Alex and Simon are definitely not giving out fintech investment advice on this week’s podcast.
Speaking of things you …
00:47:35 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
S7 E10: Dissecting Federal Preemption Laws, Citibank Dodges Consumer Protections, and Why We Don’t Have a National Fintech Charter
Summer’s almost here, and Kiah Haslett is braving the swarms of Tennessee cicadas to join Alex for another session of Bank Nerd Corner.
First up on the docket, Alex and Kiah tackle the Supreme Court’…
01:07:46 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
S7 E9: Fintech Recap: Synapse vs. the World, Visa Flex Credential, Buy Now Pay Later Reclassified as a Credit Card
We won’t lie— we’re exhausted. Are you exhausted from keeping up with one of the most tiring stories in financial services?
Jason Mikula certainly is, and he’s summoning the strength to join Alex to …
00:51:43 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
S7 E8: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Kudos, Azimuth, Layer, and Carputty
Another day, another credit card reward app to unpack. But this time, is it actually possible we’ve found the one reward app to rule them all?
Alex and Simon Taylor discuss the promising rewards opt…
00:56:48 |
Wed 29 May 2024
S7 E7: What Large Language Models Mean for the Future of Fintech, with Rohan Ramanath of Hyperplane
You can’t read anything these days without seeing something about how Chat GPT and large language models are the future of technology.
So if LLMs are the future, what exactly does this mean for fint…
00:55:17 |
Wed 22 May 2024
S7 E6: Bank Nerd Corner: Unpacking Federal Reserve Master Accounts with Julie Hill
We have a lot of questions when it comes to Fed Master Accounts. And thankfully, Julie Hill, Vice Dean and Alton C. and Cecile Cunningham Craig Professor of Law at the University of Alabama, is here …
01:04:59 |
Wed 15 May 2024
S7 E5: Fintech Recap: Tipping is Bullshit, Synapse’s Final Chapter, & Pay By Bank’s Intriguing Future
The tulips are blooming and the windmills are churning—so where in the world is Jason Mikula this week? Jason calls into the pod live from the beautiful Netherlands to break down the latest in fintec…
01:13:14 |
Wed 08 May 2024
S7 E4: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Modak Makers, Casap, Silver, Elpha Secure
Alex is back with the great and powerful Simon Taylor to unpack some of fintech’s most interesting fintech startups.
We’re barely beginning the month of May, and it looks like there’s yet another fam…
01:03:39 |
Wed 01 May 2024
S7 E3: The WILD Story of PayPal’s Origin, with Author Jimmy Soni
Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman.
What do these powerhouse entrepreneurs all have in common?
Hint: They all played a role in the meteoric rise of …
01:04:06 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
S7 E2: BNC: The Relationship Between Stock Prices and Bank Health, Tokenization’s Disruptive Potential, and Lots of FHLB Talk with Steven Kelly.
In this super special edition of Bank Nerd Corner, Alex and Kiah are joined by Steven Kelly, the Associate Director of Research at the Yale Program on Financial Stability.
They dive into the Q1 Bank …
01:09:02 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
S7 E1: Fintech Recap: Consent Order Madness, Chime Prepares to IPO, and Fintech Twitter Trolls
Another week, another consent order.
Welcome back to BaaS Island, where regulators keep throwing more bodies at the problem, hoping something will work.
Fintech Business Weekly’s Jason Mikula chats…
00:55:47 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
S6 Ep12: Workshopping Fintech Theses
This week, Alex is joined by Gabby Cazeau (Partner at Harlem Capital) and Emily Man (Partner at Primary Ventures) to workshop some theories about the future of fintech.
With open banking rules for t…
00:48:28 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
S6 Ep11: Not Fintech Investment Advice: Chipp.ai, Whop, Revenew, and NayaOne
Simon Taylor’s back on the podcast and he’s excited (but oh so exhausted) to be talking about some of fintech’s most promising startups with Alex.
First up on the docket, is Chipp.ai the next Shopify…
00:49:48 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
S6 Ep10: BNC: Unpacking the 1 Year Collapsiversary of SVB, Exploring Banking Deserts, and Is This the End of BaaS Innovation(?)
Just because Alex is finally leaving Las Vegas, doesn’t mean he’s escaping the banking desert back in Montana. And for that matter, neither are the vast majority of Americans. This week, he and Bank …
01:23:20 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
S6 Ep9: Fintech Recap: The Discover/Capital One Merger, Lineage’s Latest Consent Order, Inflation Affects Tooth Fairy Pricing
On this week’s episode of Fintech Takes, Alex is joined by international man of mystery and publisher of Fintech Business Weekly, Jason Mikula, along with the Ghost of Fintech Future and cruise direc…
00:48:05 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Killing It! The Hidden Toll of Startup Success: Matt Harris on Founder Burnout
Founding a startup is the thing so many fintech entrepreneurs dream about. So what happens when that dream turns into a nightmare?
In this special crossover series with Breaking Bank’s Jason Henrich…
00:54:43 |
Thu 29 Feb 2024
S6 Ep8: Oh, What a Gorgeous Business Model! (A Deep Dive into ServiceTitan, AmEx, and The Bancorp
Let’s face it—profitability is in vogue in fintech again.
So this week, Alex is mixing it up by taking a deep dive into the most reliably profitable business models in financial services. Which mode…
00:46:28 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Killing It! – Leaving the Hero Complex of Foundership Behind, with Shamir Karkal, CEO of Sila
What happens when entrepreneurs have to face down the most difficult decision there is — knowing when it’s time to sell, shut down, or exit?
In this special crossover series, Alex joins Breaking Ban…
00:40:44 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Killing It! –Fintech’s Biggest Disrupters on Startups, Success, and All the Hard Lessons In Between
Things in life rarely go as planned. But things in fintech? Well…
They almost never go as planned.
So how do you put yourself and your ideas into the fintech world when failure is almost certainly …
00:35:12 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
S6 Ep7: Bank Nerd Corner: New York Community Bank, Panacea Financial, the BSCA, and the State of Auto Lending
America’s favorite banking and fintech Editor, Kiah Haslett, drops by to unpack the latest, craziest, and hottest news in the banking world for another round of Bank Nerd Corner with Alex, and this w…
01:22:13 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
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